UNKOCH MY CAMPUS

A COOPERATIVE CAMPAIGN TO EXPOSE AND EXPEL UNDUE DONOR INFLUENCE IN ACADEMIA.

DONOR CONTROL FINALLY EXPOSED AT GMU!

Breaking: New Report

STOP Koch's Criminal Justice Agenda

New Collection: Koch's Oversteps of Academic Freedom, Governance, and Integrity

News of the Faculty Resistance

FIND YOUR SCHOOL

GMU Students Sue for Transparency

2017 Book!

The corrosive influence of "dark money" has undermined the democratic institutions of the United States, but not just in our political system. Education, in particular higher education, serves as the engine of critical inquiry and the foundation of our democracy. It is where citizens are exposed to ideas, and in turn, is responsible for shaping public opinion, political discourse, and political policy for decades to come.

The same wealthy donors and corporations that have been polluting our political system for self-interested political change have turned their eyes to universities for long term political and cultural change.

Nobody more exemplifies this breed of political philanthropist more than Charles Koch, CEO of Koch Industries.

Number of colleges/universities receiving Koch foundation funding over time

Koch's network, many of whom make up the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, have been using this integrated strategy for decades, and their spending is accelerating. Read more about Koch's politically driven academics.

See truthout profile of UnKoch

Eleanor Bader on the students & faculty fighting to save higher ed across the U.S.

READ The Center for Public Integrity's 2015 exposé on Koch higher ed funding!

Read our 2014 whitepaper on the state of the problem

Read expansive report on Koch's assault on academic freedom

Watch our 2014 video on the Koch academic pandemic

Read Alex Kotch's reports on our APEE 2016 recordings:

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We should cease financing our own destruction and…[support] only those programs, departments or schools that “contribute in some way to our individual companies or to the general welfare of our free enterprise system.”

— Charles Koch, 1974

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